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1990 | ||||||
129 | January 9 | Columbia STS-32 |
Daniel Brandenstein, James Wetherby, Bonnie Dunbar, Marcia Ivins, David Low |
USA |
The 33rd shuttle flight. 9th flight of Columbia. | 10 d 21 h 01 m |
130 | February 11 | Soyuz TM-9 | Anatoly Solovyov, Alexander Balandin |
USSR |
Sixth long-term expedition on Mir station. | 179 d 1 h 19 m |
131 | February 28 | Atlantis STS-36 |
John Creighton, John Kasper, David Hilmers, Richard Mullain, Pier Tuot |
USA |
34th shuttle flight. The sixth flight of Atlantis. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 4 d 10 h 18 m |
132 | April 24 | Discovery STS-31 |
Lauren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Steven Hawley, Bruce McCandless, Catherine Sullivan |
USA |
The 35th shuttle flight. The 10th flight of Discovery. Launch of the Hubble telescope. | 5 d 1 h 16 m |
133 | August 1 | Soyuz TM-10 |
Gennady Manakov, Gennady Strekalov |
USSR |
The seventh long-term expedition on Mir station. | 130 d 20 h 36 m |
134 | October 6 | Discovery STS-41 |
Richard Richards ,
Robert Cabana, Bruce Melnik, William Shepherd, Thomas Akers |
USA |
The 36th shuttle flight. 11th flight of Discovery. | 4 d 2 h 10 m |
135 | November 15 | Atlantis STS-38 |
Richard Covey, Frank Culbertson, Charles Gemar, Robert Springer, Carl Meade |
USA |
The 37th shuttle flight. The 7th flight of Atlantis. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 4 d 21 h 55 m |
136 | December 2 | Columbia STS-35 |
Vance Brand, Guy Gardner, Geoffrey Hoffman, John Lounge, Robert Parker, Samuel Durrance, Ronald Parise |
USA |
The 38th shuttle flight. The 10th flight of Columbia. | 8 d 23 h 05 m |
137 | December 2 | Soyuz TM-11 |
Victor Afanasyev, Musa Manarov, Toyohiro Akiyama (Japan) |
USSR |
The eighth long-term expedition on Mir station. Soyuz TM-11 launched into space one day with Columbia STS-35, 1.5 hours later. Toyohiro Akiyama is the first cosmonaut from Japan. Akiyama returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-10. A new record of the cumulative time in space - Manarov (for two flights) = 12984 h 32 m (541 d 00 h 32 m), after the landing of Manarov on 26.05.91. | 175 d 1 h 52 m, Akiyama - 7 d 21 h 55 m |
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1991 | ||||||
138 | April 5 | Atlantis STS-37 |
Steven Nigel, Kenneth Cameron, Linda Godwin, Jerry Ross, Jay Apt |
USA |
The 39th shuttle flight. The 8th flight of Atlantis. | 6d 00 h 32m |
139 | April 28 | Discovery STS-39 |
Michael Coats Blaine Hammond, Gregory Harbaugh, Donald McMonaghl, Guyon Blufford, Charles Veach, Richard Hieb |
USA |
The 40th shuttle flight. The 12th flight of Discovery. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 8 d 7 h 22 m |
140 | May 18 | Soyuz TM-12 |
Anatoliy Artsebarsky, Sergey Krikalev, Helen Sharman (United Kingdom) |
USSR |
Ninth long-term expedition on Mir station. Krikalev returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-13. Helen Sharman is the first woman cosmonaut from Great Britain. Sharman returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-11. | Ship and Artsbarsky - 144 d 15 h 22 m Krikalev - 311 d 20 h 1 m Sharman - 7 d 21 h 15 m |
141 | June 5 | Columbia STS-40 |
Brian O'Connor, Sydney Gutierrez, James Bagian, Tamara Jernigan, Ria Seddon, Drew Gaffney, Millie Hughes-Fulford |
USA |
41st shuttle flight. 11th flight of Columbia. | 9 d 2 h 15 m |
142 | August 2 | Atlantis STS-43 |
John Blaha, Michael Baker, Shannon Lucid, David Low , James Adamson |
USA |
42nd shuttle flight. The 9th flight of Atlantis. | 8 d 21 h 21 m |
143 | September 13 | Discovery STS-48 |
John Creighton, Kenneth Reightler, Charles Gemar, James Buchli, Mark Brown |
USA |
43th shuttle flight. The 13th flight of Discovery. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 5 d 8 h 28 m |
144 | October 2 | Soyuz TM-13 |
Alexander Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov (Kazakhstan), Franz Viehboeck (Austria) |
USSR |
The tenth long-term expedition on Mir station. Toktar Aubakirov is the first cosmonaut from Kazakhstan. Franz Viehboeck - the first cosmonaut from Austria. Aubakirov and Viehboeck returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-12. | Ship and Volkov - 175 d 2 h 51 m Aubakirov and Viehboeck - 7 d 22 h 12 m |
145 | November 24 | Atlantis STS-44 |
Frederick Gregory, Terence Henriks, James Voss, Story Musgrave , Mario Runco, Thomas Hennen |
USA |
The 44th shuttle flight. The 10th flight of Atlantis. | 6 d 22 h 51 m |
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1992 | ||||||
146 | January 22 | Discovery STS-42 |
Ronald Grabe ,
Stephen Oswald, Norman Tagard, Dzwil Hilmers, William Riddy, Roberta Bondar (Canada), Ulf Merbold (Germany) |
USA |
The 45th shuttle flight. The 14th flight of Discovery. Roberta Bondar is a female astronaut from Canada. | 8 d 1 h 15 m |
147 | March 17 | Soyuz TM-14 | Alexander Viktorenko, Alexander Kalery, Klaus Dietrich Flade (Germany) |
Russia | Eleventh long-term expedition on Mir station. First flight under the flag of Russia. Kalery is Russia's first cosmonaut. Flade returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-13. | 145 d 1 h 11 m Flade - 7 d 21 h 57 m |
148 | March 24 | Atlantis STS-45 |
Charles Bolden, Brian Duffy, Catherine Sullivan, David Listma, Michael Foale Dirk Frimout (Belgium), Byron Lichtenberg |
USA |
46th shuttle flight. The 11th flight of Atlantis. Frimout is the first astronaut from Belgium. | 8 d 22 h 9 m |
149 | May 7 | Endeavor STS-49 |
Daniel Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, Richard Hieb, Bruce Melnick, Pier Thuot, Catherine Thornton, Thomas Akers |
USA |
The 47th shuttle flight. The first flight of the new shuttle Endeavor. | 8 d 21 h 18 m |
150 | June 25 | Columbia STS-50 |
Richard Richards,
Kenneth Bowersox, Bonnie Dunbar, Yellen Backer, Karl Meade , Lawrence DeLucas, Eugene Trinh |
USA |
The 48th shuttle flight. 12th flight of Columbia. | 13 d 19 h 30 m |
151 | July 27 | Soyuz TM-15 |
Anatoly Solovyev, Sergey Avdeyev, Michel Tognini (France) |
Russia | Twelfth long-term expedition on Mir station. Tognini is the third cosmonaut of France. Tognini returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-14. | 188 d 21 h 39 m Tognini - 13 d 18 h 56 m |
152 | July 31 | Atlantis STS-46 |
Lauren Shriver, Andrew Allen, Claude Nicollier (Switzerland), Marcia Ivins, Jeffrey Hoffman, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Franco Malerba (Italy) |
USA |
49th shuttle flight. The 12th flight of Atlantis. Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. Malerba is the first astronaut from Italy. | 7 d 23 h 16 m |
153 | September 12 | Endeavor STS-47 |
Robert Gibson, Curtis Brown, Mark Lee, Jay Apt, Jaan Davis, May Jemison, Mamoru Mohri (Japan) |
USA |
50th shuttle flight. 2nd flight of Endeavor. First husband and wife (Lee and Davis) together in space. | 7 d 22 h 30 m |
154 | October 22 | Columbia STS-52 |
James Wetherbee, Michael Baker, William Shepherd, Tamara Jernigan, Charles Veach, Steven MacLean (Canada) |
USA |
51st shuttle flight. 13th flight of Columbia. | 9 d 20 h 57 m |
155 | Dec. 2 | Discovery STS-53 |
David Walker, Robert Cabana, Guyon Bluford, James Voss, Michael Clifford |
USA |
52nd shuttle flight. The 15th flight of Discovery. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 7 d 7 h 19 m |
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1993 | ||||||
156 | January 13 | Endeavor STS-54 |
John Casper, Donald McMonagle, Gregory Harbaugh, Mario Runco, Susan Helms |
USA |
53th shuttle flight. 3rd flight of Endeavor. | 5 d 23 h 39 m |
157 | January 24 | Soyuz TM-16 |
Gennady Manakov, Alexander Poleshchuk |
Russia | Thirteenth long-term expedition on Mir station. | 179 d 00 h 44 m |
158 | April 8 | Discovery STS-56 |
Kenneth Cameron, Stephen Oswald, Michael Foale Kenneth Cockrell, Ellen Ochoa |
USA |
54th shuttle flight. 16th flight of Discovery. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 9 d 6 h 9 m |
159 | April 26 | Columbia STS-55 |
Steven Nagel, Terence Henricks, Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt, Bernard Harris, Ulrich Walter (Germany), Hans Schlegel (Germany) |
USA |
55th shuttle flight. 14th flight of Columbia. Flight according to the program of Germany. | 9 d 20 h 57 m |
160 | June 21 | Endeavor STS-57 |
Ronald Grabe, Brian Duffy, David Low, Nancy Sherlock (Currie), Peter Wisoff, Janice Voss |
USA |
The 56th shuttle flight. The 4th flight of Endeavor. | 9 d 23 h 46 m |
161 | July 1 | Soyuz TM-17 |
Vasily Tsibliyev, Alexander Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere (France) |
Russia | Fourteenth long-term expedition on Mir station. Haignere is the fourth cosmonaut of France. Haignere returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-16. | 196 d 17 h 46 m Haignere - 20 d 16 h 9 m |
162 | September 12 | Discovery STS-51 |
Frank Culbertson, William Readdy, James Newman Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz |
USA |
The 57th shuttle flight. The 17th flight of Discovery. Flight for the US Department of Defense. | 9 d 20 h 11 m |
163 | October 18 | Columbia STS-58 |
John Blaha, Richard Searfoss, Shannon Lucid, David Wolf, William McArthur, Ria Seddon, Martin Fettman |
USA |
The 58th shuttle flight. The 15th flight of Columbia. | 14 d 0 h 12 m |
164 | Dec. 2 | Endeavor STS-61 |
Richard Covey, Kenneth Bowersox, Thomas Akers, Geoffrey Hoffman, Catherine Thornton, Claude Nicollier (Switzerland), Story Musgrave |
USA |
The 59th shuttle flight. 5th flight of Endeavor. Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission. | 10 d 19 h 58 m |
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1994 | ||||||
165 | January 8 | Soyuz TM-18 |
Victor Afanasyev, Yuri Usachev, Valery Polyakov |
Russia | Fifteenth long-term expedition on Mir station. Polyakov began his record duration space flight. He will land on March 22, 1995 at the Soyuz TM-20. | 182 d 00 h 27 m Polyakov - 10505 h 58 m (437 d 17 h 58 m) |
166 | February 3 | Discovery STS-60 |
Charles Bolden, Kenneth Reightler, Jan Davis, Ronald Sega, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Sergey Krikalev (Russia) |
USA |
The 60th shuttle flight. The 18th flight of Discovery. Krikalev is the first Russian cosmonaut on the American shuttle. | 8 d 7 h 9 m |
167 | March 4 | Columbia STS-62 |
John Casper, Andrew Allen, Pier Thuot, Charles Gemar, Marcia Ivins |
USA |
61st shuttle flight. 16th flight of Columbia. | 13 d 23 h 17 m |
168 | April 9 | Endeavor STS-59 |
Sydney Gutierrez, Kevin Chilton, Jay Apt, Michael Clifford, Linda Godwin, Thomas Jones |
USA |
62nd shuttle flight. 6th flight of Endeavor. | 11 d 5 h 50 m |
169 | July 1 | Soyuz TM-19 | Yuri Malenchenko, Talgat Musabaev (Kazakhstan) | Russia | Sixteenth long-term expedition on Mir station. Polyakov is still on the station. | 125 d 22 h 53 m |
170 | July 8 | Columbia STS-65 |
Robert Cabana, James Halsell, Richard Hieb, Carl Walz, Leroy Chiao, Donald Thomas, Chiaki Naito-Mukai (Japan) |
USA |
63rd shuttle flight. The 17th flight of Columbia. | 14 d 17 h 55 m |
171 | September 9 | Discovery STS-64 |
Richard Richards ,
Blaine Hammond, Jerry Linenger, Susan Helms , Karl Meade , Mark Lee |
USA |
64th shuttle flight. The 19th flight of Discovery. | 10 d 22 h 50 m |
172 | September 30 | Endeavor STS-68 |
Michael Baker, Terrence Wilcutt, Thomas Jones, Steven Smith, Daniel Bursch, Peter Wissoff |
USA |
The 65th shuttle flight. 7th flight of Endeavor. | 11 d 5 h 46 m |
173 | October 3 | Soyuz TM-20 |
Alexander Viktorenko, Elena Kondakova, Ulf Merbold (Germany) |
Russia | The seventeenth long-term expedition on Mir station. Polyakov is still on the station. He will return on Earth with Viktorenko and Kondakova on 03/03/1995. Merbold flew two times with the Americans on shuttles, now with the Russians on the Soyuz. Merbold returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-19. | 169 d 5 h 21 m Merbold - 31 d 12 h 36 m |
174 | November 3 | Atlantis STS-66 |
Donald McMonagle, Curtis Brown, Ellen Ochoa, Joseph Tanner, Scott Parazynski, Jean-Francois Clervoy (France) |
USA |
The 66th shuttle flight. The 13th flight of Atlantis. | 10 d 22 h 34 m |
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1995 | ||||||
175 | February 3 | Discovery STS-63 |
James Wetherbee, Eileen Collins, Bernard Harris, Michael Foale, Janice Voss, Vladimir Titov (Russia) |
USA |
67th shuttle flight. The 20th flight of Discovery. Converging to 10 meters with the Russian space station Mir. Collins is the first female pilot of the shuttle. Titov is the second Russian cosmonaut on the American shuttle. | 8 d 6 h 28 m |
176 | March 2 | Endeavor STS-67 |
Stephen Oswald, William Gregori, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Tamara Jernigan, Ronald Parise, Samuel Durrence |
USA |
The 68th shuttle flight. 8th flight of Endeavor. At this time the longest flight of the shuttle. | 16 d 15 h 8 m |
177 | March 14 | Soyuz TM-21 |
Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov, Norman Thagart (USA) |
Russia | Eighteenth long-term expedition on Mir station.
Tagart - the first American in the Russian Soyuz.
The crew returned on Earth in the shuttle Atlantis STS-71.
Almost 438 days in space, on March 22, 1995, Polyakov goes on Earth. A new record of the duration of stay in space - Polyakov = 10505 h 58 m (437 d 17 h 58 m). A new record of the cumulative time in space - Polyakov (for two flights) = 16288 h 33 m (678 d 16 h 33 m). |
Ship - 181 d 00 h 41 m Crew - 115 d 8 h 43 m |
178 | June 27 | Atlantis STS-71 |
Robert Gibson, Charles Prekourt, Yellen Baker, Gregory Harbaugh, Bonnie Dunbar, Anatoly Solovyev, Nikolay Budarin |
USA |
69th shuttle flight. The 14th flight of Atlantis. The first docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Soloviev and Budarin stayed at the station and returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-21. Budarin is a Russian cosmonaut, he makes his first flight not on the Russian Soyuz but on the American shuttle. Dezhurov, Strekalov and Tagard returned on Earth in the shuttle. | 9d 19h 22m Solovyev and Budarin - 75 d 11 h 20 m |
179 | July 13 | Discovery STS-70 |
Terence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, Nancy Currie, Donald Thomas, Mary Weber |
USA |
70th shuttle flight. 21st flight of Discovery. | 8 d 22 h 20 m |
180 | September 3 | Soyuz TM-22 |
Yuri Gidzenko, Sergey Avdeyev, Thomas Reiter (Germany) |
Russia | Twentieth long-term expedition on Mir station. | 179 d 1 h 42 m |
181 | September 7 | Endeavor STS-69 |
David Walker, Kenneth Cockrell, James Voss, James Newman, Michael Gernhardt |
USA |
71st shuttle flight. The 9th flight of Endeavor. | 10 d 20 h 28 m |
182 | October 20 | Columbia STS-73 |
Kenneth Bowersox Kenneth Rominger, Catherine Coleman, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Catherine Thornton, Fred Leslie, Albert Sacco |
USA |
The 72nd shuttle flight. The 18th flight of Columbia. | 15 d 21 h 52 m |
183 | November 12 | Atlantis STS-74 |
Kenneth Cameron, James Halsell, Chris Hadfield (Canada), Jerry Ross, William McArthur |
USA |
73th shuttle flight. The 15th flight of Atlantis. The second docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. | 8 d 4 h 31 m |
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1996 | ||||||
184 | January 11 | Endeavor STS-72 |
Brian Duffy, Brent Jett, Leroy Chiao, Winston Scott, Daniel Barry, Koichi Wakata (Japan) |
USA |
74th shuttle flight. The 10th flight of Endeavor. | 8 d 22 h 1 m |
185 | February 21 | Soyuz TM-23 |
Yuri Onufrienko, Yuri Usachev |
Russia | Twenty first long-term expedition on Mir station. | 193 d 19 h 8 m |
186 | February 22 | Columbia STS-75 |
Andrew Allen, Scott Horowitz, Jeffrey Hoffman, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Claude Nicollier (Switzerland), Maurizio Cheli (Italy), Umberto Guidoni (Italy) |
USA |
The 75th shuttle flight. The 19th flight of Columbia. | 13 d 16 h 14 m |
187 | March 22 | Atlantis STS-76 |
Richard Searfoss, Kevin Chilton, Linda Godwin, Michael Clifford, Ronald Sega, Shannon Lucid |
USA |
The 76th shuttle flight. The 16th flight of Atlantis. The third docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Shenon Lucid stayed on Mir station and returned on Earth in Atlantis STS-79. Shannon Lucid is holding a record of the space flight duraton for American astronauts and, at the same time for women. | 9 d 5 h 16 m Shannon - 188 d 4 h 0 m |
188 | May 19 | Endeavor STS-77 |
John Casper, Curtis Brown, Andrew Thomas, Daniel Bursch, Mario Runco, Mark Garneau (Canada) |
USA |
The 77th shuttle flight. 11th flight of Endeavor. | 10 d 2 h 30 m |
189 | June 20 | Columbia STS-78 |
Terence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, Richard Linnehan, Susan Helms, Charles Brady, Jean-Jacques Favier (France), Robert Thirsck (Canada) |
USA |
78th shuttle flight. The 20th flight of Columbia. | 16 d 21 h 48 m |
190 | August 17 | Soyuz TM-24 |
Valery Korzun, Alexander Kalery, Claudie Andre-Deshay (France) |
Russia | Twenty-second long-term expedition on Mir station. Claudie Andre-Deshay is the first French femal cosmonaut. Claudie Andre-Deshay returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-23. | 196 d 17 h 26 m Andre-Deshay - 15 d 18 h 2 m |
191 | September 16 | Atlantis STS-79 |
William Readdy, Terrence Wilcutt, Jay Apt, Thomas Akers, Carl Walz, John Blaha |
USA |
79th shuttle flight. The 17th flight of Atlantis. The fourth docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Blaha stayed on Mir station and returned on Earth in Atlantis STS-81. Shannon Lucid returned on Earth. | 10 d 3 h 19 m Blaha - 128 d 5 h 28 m |
192 | November 19 | Columbia STS-80 |
Kenneth Cockrell, Kenneth Rominger, Tamara Jernigan, Thomas Jones, Story Musgrave |
USA |
80th shuttle flight. The 21st flight of Columbia. Musgrave commits second, after Yang , the sixth space flight. At the time, the longest flight of the shuttle. | 17 d 15 h 53 m |
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1997 | ||||||
193 | January 12 | Atlantis STS-81 |
Michael Baker, Brent Jett, Peter Wisoff, John Grunsfeld, Marcia Ivins, Jerry Linenger |
USA |
81st shuttle flight. The 18th flight of Atlantis. The fifth docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Linenger stayed on Mir station and returned on Earth in Atlantis STS-84. Blaha returned on Earth. | 10 d 4 h 56 m Linenger - 132 d 4 h 00 m |
194 | February 10 | Soyuz TM-25 |
Vasily Tsibliyev, Alexander Lazutkin, Reinhold Ewald (Germany) |
Russia | Twenty-third long-term expedition on Mir station. On June 25 Progress M-34 collided with the station. The Spectrum module was depressurized. Ewald returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-24. | 184 d 22 h 8 m Ewald - 19 d 16 h 35 m |
195 | February 11 | Discovery STS-82 |
Kenneth Bauersox, Scott Horowitz, Joseph Tanner, Steven Hawley, Gregory Harbaugh, Mark Lee , Steven Smith |
USA |
82nd shuttle flight. The 22nd flight of Discovery. The second Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission. | 9 d 23 h 36 m |
196 | April 4 | Columbia STS-83 |
James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris |
USA |
The 83rd shuttle flight. The 22nd flight of Columbia. | 3 d 23 h 34 m |
197 | May 15 | Atlantis STS-84 |
Charles Precourt, Eileen Collins, Carlos Noriega, Michael Foale, Edward Lu, Jean-François Clervoy (France), Elena Kondakova (Russia) |
USA |
The 84th shuttle flight. The 19th flight of Atlantis. Sixth docking of the shuttle with the station "Mir". Foale stayed on Mir station and returned on Earth in Atlantis STS-86. Linenger returned on Earth. | 9 d 5 h 21 m Foalt - 144 d 13 h 47 m |
198 | July 1 | Columbia STS-94 |
James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris |
USA |
The 85th shuttle flight. The 23rd flight of Columbia. Repetition of unsuccessful flight STS-83. | 15 d 16 h 45 m |
199 | August 5 | Soyuz TM-26 |
Anatoly Solovyev, Pavel Vinogradov |
Russia | Twenty fourth long-term expedition on Mir station. | 197 d 17 h 3 m |
200 | August 7 | Discovery STS-85 |
Curtis Brown, Kent Rominger, Jaan Davis, Robert Curbeam, Stephen Robinson, Bjarni Tryggvason (Canada) |
USA |
86th shuttle flight. 23rd flight of Discovery. | 11 d 20 h 27 m |
201 | September 25 | Atlantis STS-86 |
James Wetherbee, Michael Bloomfield Scott Parazinski, Wendy Lawrence, David Wolf, Vladimir Titov (Russia), Jean-Loup Chretien (France) |
USA |
87th shuttle flight. The 20th flight of Atlantis. The seventh docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Wolf remained on Mir station and returned on Earth in Endeavor STS-89. Foale returned on Earth. | 10 d 19 h 21 m Wolf - 127 d 20 h 1 m |
202 | November 19 | Columbia STS-87 |
Kevin Kregel, Steven Lindsey, Kalpana Chawla, Winston Scott, Takao Doi (Japan), Leonid Kadenyuk (Ukraine) |
USA |
88th shuttle flight. 24th flight of Columbia. Kadenyuk is the first cosmonaut of Ukraine. | 15 d 16 h 34 m |
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203 | January 22 | Endeavor STS-89 |
Terrence Wilcutt, Joe Edwards James Reilly, Michael Anderson, Bonnie Dunbar, Andrew Thomas, Salizhan Sharipov (Russia) |
USA |
89th shuttle flight. The 12th flight of Endeavor. The eighth docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Wolfe returned on Earth. Thomas stayed on Mir station and returned on Earth in Discovery STS-91. | 8 d 19 h 47 m - Thomas - 10 d 15 h 12 m |
204 | January 29 | Soyuz TM-27 |
Talgat Musabaev (Kazakhstan), Nikolay Budarin, Leopold Eyharts (France) |
Russia | Twenty fifth long-term expedition on Mir station. Leopold Eyharts returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-26. | 207 d 12 h 49 m Eyhartz - 20 d 16 h 36 m |
205 | April 17 | Columbia STS-90 |
Richard Searfoss, Scott Altman Richard Linnehan, Katherine Hire, Dafydd Williams Williams (Canada), Jay Buckley, James Pawelczyk |
USA |
The 90th shuttle flight. 25th flight of Columbia. | 15 d 21 h 50 m |
206 | June 2 | Discovery STS-91 |
Charles Prekourt, Dominic Gorie, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Wendy Lawrence, Janet Kavandi, Valery Ryumin (Russia) |
USA |
91st shuttle flight. 24th flight of Discovery. The ninth (and last) docking of the shuttle with the station Mir. Thomas returned on Earth. | 9 d 19 h 48 m |
207 | August 13 | Soyuz TM-28 |
Gennady Padalka, Sergey Avdeyev, Yuri Baturin |
Russia | Twenty-sixth long-term expedition on Mir station. Baturin returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-27. Padalka returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-28. Avdeyev returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-29 on August 28, 1999. This will be the second (after Polyakov) duration of the space flight. On the sum of three flights, Avdeyev becomes a record holder - 17942 h 12 m (747 d 14 with 12 m). | 198 d 16 h 31 m Baturin - 11 d 19 h 40 m Avdeyev - 379 d 14 h 51 m |
208 | October 29 | Discovery STS-95 |
Curtis Brown, Steven Lindsey, Scott Parazinski, Stephen Robinson, John Glenn, Pedro Duque (Spain), Chiaki Mukai (Japan) |
USA |
92th shuttle flight. 25th flight of Discovery. Duque is the first astronaut from Spain. Glenn is making the second flight at the age of 77 years. | 8 d 21 h 44 m |
209 | December 4 | Endeavor STS-88 |
Robert Cabana, Frederick Sturckow, James Newman, Nancy Currie, Jerry Ross, Sergey Krikalev (Russia) |
USA |
The 93rd shuttle flight. The 13th flight of Endeavor. The first American module (Unity) was docked to the ISS. | 11 d 19 h 18 m |
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1999 | ||||||
210 | February 20 | Soyuz TM-29 |
Victor Afanasyev, Jean-Pierre Haignere (France), Ivan Bella (Slovakia) |
Russia | Twenty seventh long-term expedition on Mir station. Bella is the first cosmonaut from Slovakia. Bella returned on Earth in Soyuz TM-28. Afanasyev, Haignere and Avdeyev left the Mir station and returned on Earth on August 28. This actually ended the space epic of the Mir station. Station Mir was depopulated. Almost 10 years, since September 8, 1989, replacing each other astronauts remained always on the station Mir. On the sum of three flights, Avdeyev becomes the record holder - 17942 h 12 m (747 d 14 from 12 m). | 188 d 20 h 16 m Bella - 7 d 21 h 56 m |
211 | May 27 | Discovery STS-96 |
Kenneth Rominger, Rick Husband, Daniel Barry, Ellen Ochoa, Tamara Jernigan, Julie Payette (Canada), Valery Tokarev (Russia) |
USA |
The 94th shuttle flight. 26th flight of Discovery. | 9d 19h 13m |
212 | July 23 | Columbia STS-93 |
Eileen Collins Geoffrey Ashby, Stephen Hawley, Catherine Coleman, Michel Tognini (France) |
USA |
The 95th shuttle flight. 26th flight of Columbia. Collins is the first female commander of the shuttle. | 4 d 22 h 50 m |
213 | December 19 | Discovery STS-103 |
Curtis Brown, Scott Kelly, Steven Smith, Michael Foale, John Grunsfeld, Claude Nicollier (Switzerland), Jean-Francois Clervoy (France) |
USA |
The 96th shuttle flight. The 27th flight of Discovery. The third Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission. | 7 d 23 h 11 m |
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